On 1 May 2016 at 21:27, Michael Hudson-Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) If the Depends is entirely auto generated, that doesn't give the > maintainer anywhere to encode versioned Depends or alternatives. > 2) At least in principle, you could get different results on different > architectures thanks to build tags, but -dev packages are _all.debs.
We could possibly combat this by looking at Build-Depends and stealing version constraints and alternatives from there if the package we need included exists in the Build-Depends, right? (Complex, but theoretically possible?) > Not so much of a problem, but I'm also a bit unsure whether the > generated value should include TestImports or just Imports (probably > just Imports?). If we want to have automated "autopkgtests", then it needs to be both (which should be reasonably harmless). :) ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
